Tracking Bush Administration Lies
Four web-based organizations now provide citizens, government officials, journalists, and activists a real-time record of Bush administration distortions, deceptions, and lies.
(PRWEB) May 15, 2004
“George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large and small, directly and by omission. He has mugged the truth—not merely in honest error, but deliberately, consistently, and repeatedly.” —David Corn, The Lies of George W. Bush
“Whether the topic is taxes or Social Security, the environment or education, Medicare or foreign wars, the aggressive deception of the American people is the foundation on which each Bush policy is built.” —Paul Waldman, Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media Didn’t Tell You
Four web-based organizations now provide citizens, government officials, journalists, and activists a real-time record of Bush administration distortions, deceptions, and lies. Each group offers an email digest of breaking stories, with all stories archived on the respective sites. These organizations must come to the attention of the American public, in order that we the people may have easy access to credible, well-researched information, which we can use to discern truth from fantasy and fact from falsehood.
Misleader: A Daily Chronicle of Bush Administration Distortion
Misleader. org will provide an accurate daily chronicle for journalists of mis-representations, distortions and downright misleading statements by President Bush and the Bush Administration. Misleader. org is presented as a service of MoveOn. org, the on-line public interest group.
Media Matters for America:
Media Matters for America is a not-for-profit progressive research and information center dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U. S. media.
Conservative misinformation is defined as news or commentary presented in the media that is not accurate, reliable, or credible and that forwards the conservative agenda. For the first time, Media Matters for America has put in place a system to monitor the media for conservative misinformation – every day, in real time—in 2004 and beyond.
The Center for American Progress:
The Center for American Progress is a nonpartisan research and educational institute dedicated to promoting a strong, just and free America that ensures opportunity for all.
The Center for American Progress has launched a new database project, Claim vs. Fact, to chart conservatives' dishonesty—and compare it with the truth. In this database, each conservative quote will be matched against well-documented facts, so that users can get a more accurate picture of the issues. Claim vs. Fact documents statements from conservatives like President Bush, Vice President Cheney, members of Congress, and Fox News personalities. Each fact is sourced, and in many cases includes a web link directly to that source.
Bush Greenwatch: Tacking the Bush AdministrationÂ’s Environmental Misdeeds
Bush Greenwatch provides accurate and timely information on the Bush Administration's assault on our environment and public health. Bush Greenwatch is dedicated to expanding media coverage and public awareness of the many vital environmental and public health issues affected by the administration's anti-environmental agenda, which consistently places the interests of corporate donors above the public good. BushGreenwatch is a project of Environmental Media Services, a nonprofit communications clearinghouse, with support from MoveOn. org, the online advocacy group.
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For related material on this story, please see the following sources:
Http://mediamatters. org (http://mediamatters. org)
Http://www. misleader. org (http://www. misleader. org)
Http://www. bushgreenwatch. org (http://www. bushgreenwatch. org)
Http://www. americanprogress. org (http://www. americanprogress. org)
Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies and Why the Media DidnÂ’t Tell You by Paul Waldman
The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception by David Corn
The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir by Joseph Wilson
Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush by John W. Dean
